Marketing
Burger standouts detail their marketing strategies
As the executives of Burger King and Five Guys revealed during a session at the Restaurant Leadership Conference, their brands share a conscious commitment to style over substance in their marketing approaches.
Operations
Snap Kitchen shuts Chicago operations
The health-oriented hybrid says a change in its business model makes expansion there too costly.
The economy may still be sluggish, but things picked up for the convenience store (C-store) channel. The NPD Group states that traffic, sales and average visits increased in the second quarter of 2010. While store visits are increasing, pay-at-the-pump visits are steady and dual visits—pay-at-the-pump plus store—are declining.